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Bors (Canton de Charente-Sud)

Charente · CC des 4B Sud Charente · INSEE 16053

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 8.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 12 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bors (Canton de Charente-Sud) (INSEE 16053) is in Charente (16), part of CC des 4B Sud Charente. Population 119 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). [2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/16053-bors-canton-de-charente-sud

Vitality score

Vitality score 8.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 12 % of the 12,100 communes of a similar size.

Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.

Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.21102.13
Housing mix155

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 0 of 2
Everyday services 0 of 3
Lodging 0 of 2
One square per service type, shaded by how many: none, one, a few, five or more. A blank square means none was counted — the sources do not distinguish “none here” from “not counted”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 177 2023: 119 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 126 (2012) → 119 (2023): -5.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 167 (1990) → 119 (2023): -28.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 66, of which 0 % second homes and 25.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmBakery — 3.9 km SW (Chevanceaux)Food shop — 4.0 km SW (Chevanceaux)Pharmacy — 4.0 km SW (Chevanceaux)Primary school — 4.1 km SW (Chevanceaux)GP — 4.6 km SW (Chevanceaux)
Bakery — 3.9 km SWFood shop — 4.0 km SWPharmacy — 4.0 km SWPrimary school — 4.1 km SWGP — 4.6 km SW Straight-line, from the mairie, in the direction given. Services in the same town share a spoke. Distance is not travel time: a pass or an estuary can double it.

Bakery (Chevanceaux): 3.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Chevanceaux): 4 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Chevanceaux): 4.6 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Chevanceaux): 4 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Chevanceaux): 4.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Each track runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile of the 34,141 communes with that measurement; the tick is the median. A value beyond either end sits at the end and is marked ▸.

An average of 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the BAIGNES BEL AIR weather station, 8 km away at 73 m; the village itself is at 113 m. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at LE TATRE, 9.2 km away at 97 m, over 11 summers. [9]

An average of 748 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at BAIGNES BEL AIR, 8 km away at 73 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16053/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16053/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16053/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16053/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17104
  9. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

Villages like this one

Matched on size, density, second homes and which everyday shops and services are present — not on the score, so a village of the same kind that is doing better or worse shows up rather than being hidden.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Narbéfontaine57662 km NE11511.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 39 %
Peyrusse-Massas32186 km S11716.8No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Le Ménil-Ciboult61385 km N12612.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Crespy-le-Neuf10499 km NE12310.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Champaubert51496 km NE12312.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 77 %
La Boissière53279 km N1158.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 97 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Peyrusse-Massas32186 km S11716.8No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
La Boissière53279 km N1158.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 97 %
Le Ménil-Ciboult61385 km N12612.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Champaubert51496 km NE12312.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 77 %
Crespy-le-Neuf10499 km NE12310.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Narbéfontaine57662 km NE11511.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 39 %

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…and in much the same climate

The same match on size and services, narrowed to communes whose summers, winters and summer humidity are all close to Bors (Canton de Charente-Sud)'s. All three are required, so this section is absent for the 11.8 % of communes with no humidity station near enough to measure: two temperature axes alone cannot tell a muggy coast from a dry one.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Labescau3399 km S14017.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Expiremont1714 km W11214.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Sillas33107 km S11913.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Val-de-Vière51538 km NE13110.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martin-du-Clocher1686 km N12610.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Couziers37205 km N12112.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %